FOI/2025/26/169

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

·       All email correspondence between staff at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and staff at the DIocese of London (anyone with an email address ending with @london.anglican.org) between Aug 1 2023 and Aug 1 2025

·       All email correspondence between staff at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and staff at the Diocese of Southwark (anyone with an email address ending with @southwark.anglican.org) between Aug 1 2023 and Aug 1 2025

If possible (provided it does not exceed the cost limit or the time limit of 20 working days), could you also provide:

·       All emails from staff at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust that mention the terms "exorcism", "exorcisms", "exorcist", "exorcists", and "deliverance" between Aug 1 2023 and Aug 1 2025.

Response 

Having completed enquiries within CLCH in respect of Section 1(1)(a), CLCH does hold information relating to your request. Under Section 1(1)(b), the below has been provided. 

Exemption under Section 12(1). 

This information is not readily available, and it would therefore require service staff to manually look up this information 

The Trust applies Section 12(1) for this part of your request. Section 12(1) of the Act states that ‘Section 12(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit’. The costs are calculated at £25 per hour per person at a cost limit of £450 for public authorities. The Trust estimates that the cost of complying with this request would significantly exceed the above limit. Over 4500 inboxes would need to be searched which would take over 18 hours.Thus meaning it would exceed the 18 hour time limit and therefore engages Section 12(1) for this your FOI request.

 

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